Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picturesque idleness on the western shore of the Black Sea, not far from the Danube's mouth, lies Constanta, Roumania's only port. In the casino there can often be seen half a dozen gilded Roumanian admirals who command scarce so many ships...
...Duce had come to tell the assembled Fascists that Genoa's commerce has recently outstripped that of Marseilles, heretofore the most important Mediterranean port. He had come to exult over the fact that Italy is now constructing more ships* than any other nation except Britain.? He had come to fire Italian hearts with the purpose to make of the Mediterranean an Italian lake...
While Il Duce triumphed at Genoa, King Vittorio Emanuele embarked at Civita Vecchia (port of Rome) upon the royal yacht Savoia for Sardinia. Escorting the Savoia steamed four dreadnoughts, three cruisers, 22 destroyers...
...This commemorates the opening of Chicago's municipal air port. Chicago has provided facilities for the landing of airplanes and the War Department is invited to avail itself of this opportunity...
Last fortnight Captain Frankau traveled to St. Louis. It seemed a good place to proclaim what sound old Tories were thinking over their port in the London clubs. Incidentally, a convention of U. S. booksellers was in session there, to whom Frankau, who maintains that the national significance** of his novels has impressed "every one who can read in the British Isles," would just say a word...